When comparing Press vs Yahoo News Digest, the Slant community recommends Press for most people. In the question“What are the best news readers?”Press is ranked 6th while Yahoo News Digest is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Press is:

Once articles are synced, all of the information is cached and can be viewed while offline.

Pros

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Works offline

Once articles are synced, all of the information is cached and can be viewed while offline.

Pro

Lots of integrations

Works as a front-end for Feedly, Feedbin, Fever or Feed Wrangler.

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Gorgeous UI

Beautiful app, and a great user experience. Press is able to take info from other readers and present it in a more manageable fashion.

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Customizable themes

Light and dark themes are available to accommodate users in high or low light environments.

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Readability support

Press is compatible with Readability; a service that stores online articles for reading later.

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Great widget

Press has a widget available for easier reading.

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Beautiful UI design

Great look and feel to the app as you swipe though stories or scroll down on a headline to read more details. Most stories come with custom designed graphs tailored for the story.

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Great for a casual reader of the News

Rather than give you full articles, the app creates "Atoms". It's a short summary of the news event, generated from a variety of different sources.It provides infographs, images, videos and more to help you quickly understand the news event. This means you are able to read through all of the news stories in minutes.

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Only shows top few stories

Hard to get lost in reading news when you only get 8-12 stories at a time.

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Cons

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Unreliable after being installed a while

After about a week, this app stops working as intended. Features like syncing and caching are the most common features to break.

Con

Lack of updates may cause compatibility issues

The last update to the Google Play Store was January 2014. It looks like it's been abandoned, so will likely have increasing issues with bugs and compatibility concerns with newer Android versions.

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Android only

You are limited to only using the app on an Android device.

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No customization of news headlines or categories

You only get the top 8-10 headlines of the day regardless of news category or source.

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Meager sharing options

You can share any article in the digest, but it doesn't give many options for tailoring the message that is sent.

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